Ignatius Atta Amprofi
Tarkwa
Summary
20+ years of experience in delivering optimal results and business value in gold processing Plant. An honest, humble, respectful, affable and a team player. Ability to learn fast and nothing taught once becomes a novelty after second exposure. Ability to work for long hours with little supervision. Experience with project management, plan maintenance activities and cost reduction execution. Commitment to mentoring and developing artisans in delivering result. Ability to carry out formal and informal coaching to subordinates. Experience in implementing business improvements in processing plant.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Material Resource Planner
Abosso Goldfields Limited
10.2022 - Current
- Implemented robust reporting mechanisms to provide real-time updates on inventory levels, enabling informed decision-making throughout the organization.
- Sourced alternative materials when required due to shortages or delays, minimizing disruption to production schedules while maintaining consistent quality standards.
- Reduced stock discrepancies by conducting regular audits and addressing issues promptly.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure the timely delivery of required resources for ongoing projects.
- Organize pre-shutdown meetings.
Business Improvement Specialist
Abosso Goldfields Limited
02.2019 - 09.2022
- Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work.
- Improved customer satisfaction rates through proactive problem-solving and efficient complaint resolution.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals on time and within budget.
- Implemented new training programs for staff, leading to higher employee retention rates and better overall performance.
Improvement Supervisor/Sectional Engineer
Abosso Goldfields Limited
09.2015 - 01.2019
- Ensure crushing plant sustain 85% availability
- Ensure day today running of crushing plant and Booster station
- Ensure resources is planned for weekly crushing plant shutdown
- Organize plant shutdown schedules and spares
- Coordinating with stores controller for critical spares
Business improvement Analyst/ front line coach
Abosso Goldfields Limited
05.2012 - 09.2015
- Coached front line Managers in the deployment of Business Improvement ideas.
- Conduct idea owner check-in weekly to ensure ideas progresses the pipeline.
- Coached key stakeholders on their roles in the change process.
- Ensured projects delivered benefit in cost reduction and/or efficiency improvements.
- Audited processes and improvements periodically
- Analysed data and draft idea forms
Business improvement Analyst/ front line coach
Abosso Goldfields Limited
09.2011 - 08.2015
- Coached front line Managers in the deployment of Business Improvement ideas.
- Conduct idea owner check-in weekly to ensure ideas progresses the pipeline.
- Coached key stakeholders on their roles in the change process.
- Ensured projects delivered benefit in cost reduction and/or efficiency improvements.
- Audited processes and improvements periodically
Acting Business improvement Superintendent, Metallurgy and Engineering
Abosso Goldfields Limited
01.2012 - 02.2012
- Implementation of business improvement projects, ideas and strategies through coaching
- Built processing department ownership of business improvement initiatives
- Promoted business improvement implementation within the processing department
- Carried out training and coaching at all levels of employees in business improvement skills and tools
- Carried out sustainability auditing of business improvement ideas to ensure continued realization of benefits for the long term
- Movement of conveying from stores to installation point
- Experience in conveyor belting maintenance replacement
- Hot splicing experience
- Provide improvement/innovation to team
- Liaise with Commercial team for parts and able to work effectively
- Excellent skills in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Project and Excel
Mechanical foreman
Abosso Goldfields Limited
01.2005 - 08.2011
- Responsible for plan maintenance schedules and backlogs
- Responsible for pebble crushing and all conveyor processes.
- Assisting in identifying improvement opportunities and corrective maintenance.
- Successful implementation of secondary crushing plant and safety procedures
- Implementation of hazard identification and risk assessment
Plant Foreman In charge of conveyors, rubberling sandblasting
Abosso Goldfields Limited
11.2006 - 08.2008
- Management of conveyor change out and rubber lining activities
- Preparation and submission of daily, weekly and monthly reports of conveyors plant superintendent
- Management of hot and cold splicing consumables.
- Responsible for all sandblasting and painting in the plant and Workshop
- Responsible for ANSI of conveyor spares
- Liaison with other plant supervisor to investigate any abnormalities pertaining to the processing plant from crushing, milling, cyclones, CIL, elution and thickening circuits design and implement remedial actions
Plant Fitter / planning clerk
Abosso Goldfields Limited
01.1999 - 01.2001
- Daily greasing from crushing plant to the milling plant.
- Complete plan maintenance job order from my supervisor
- Replacement of vee belt.
- Enter all job from PM02 into maintenance planning system (Mianpac)
- Print out due plan job orders and distribute to supervisors.
- Collect pump running hours and enter into maintenance database.
Grade controller / data entry clerk
Abosso Goldfields Limited
12.1997 - 01.1999
- Daily calculation of drilling meters for morning meetings
- Tally clerk, loading of assay
- Dispatching of samples
- Ore spotter and sampler
- Core cutting and general core shed activities
- Enter rock logging into micromine software.
- Enter exploration core logging information
Education
Ongoing Professional Maintenance Engineering Prog - Maintenance Engineering
International Institute of Management & Technical
India09-2025
Diploma - Commerce
University of cape coast
Diploma - Accounting
Cambridge International college
Introductory certificate in management - undefined
Institute of Leadership (ILM)
Fundamental of Operational Improvement - undefined
University of melbourne
01.2012
Skills
- Business Improvement
- Change Management
- Project Management
- Plan maintenance activities
- Planning Activities
- Rubber lining
- Conveyor belting
- Accounting Functions
- Analytical
- Team Leadership
- Resource material planning
- Strategic Planning
References
Richard, Amoako-Atta, r.amoako-atta@WEIRMINERALS.COM, 0277-741884, 0244-385485, Weir Warman Ghana Accra, Accra, Ghana
Accomplishments
- Successfully optimized primary crusher availability from 65. % to 80% and above
- Reduce conveyor downtime from 20 to 8mins per day in 6 months
- Successfully optimized a secondary crusher magnet down times project.
- Locked in 992 delays baseline of 54 mins/per day to 30mins per/per day.
- Assisted a team for the installation and commissioning secondary crusher conveyors
- Successfully optimized the use of Sag/Ball lube filters with the help ultrasonic cleaning equipment
- Member of the team that achieved a production target of 5.3Mta as against 5.2Mta in 2006 at Abosso Goldfields Limited
- Installation, splicing and maintenance all conveyor belt under area of responsibilities
- Supervise the crushing plant maintenance activities.
- Responsible for maintenance planned shutdown resource
Timeline
Material Resource Planner
Abosso Goldfields Limited
10.2022 - Current
Business Improvement Specialist
Abosso Goldfields Limited
02.2019 - 09.2022
Improvement Supervisor/Sectional Engineer
Abosso Goldfields Limited
09.2015 - 01.2019
Business improvement Analyst/ front line coach
Abosso Goldfields Limited
05.2012 - 09.2015
Acting Business improvement Superintendent, Metallurgy and Engineering
Abosso Goldfields Limited
01.2012 - 02.2012
Business improvement Analyst/ front line coach
Abosso Goldfields Limited
09.2011 - 08.2015
Plant Foreman In charge of conveyors, rubberling sandblasting
Abosso Goldfields Limited
11.2006 - 08.2008
Mechanical foreman
Abosso Goldfields Limited
01.2005 - 08.2011
Plant Fitter / planning clerk
Abosso Goldfields Limited
01.1999 - 01.2001
Grade controller / data entry clerk
Abosso Goldfields Limited
12.1997 - 01.1999
Diploma - Commerce
University of cape coast
Diploma - Accounting
Cambridge International college
Introductory certificate in management - undefined
Institute of Leadership (ILM)
Fundamental of Operational Improvement - undefined
University of melbourne
Ongoing Professional Maintenance Engineering Prog - Maintenance Engineering
International Institute of Management & Technical
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